Updates from the edge of the Web

WebFWD Welcomes the First Fellows

Only two short months ago we launched WebFWD – Mozilla’s accelerator and incubator program for Open Innovation and the open Web. Today we are proud and very happy to announce our first two Fellows – and as a bonus three projects which came through our partnership with Teens in Tech into our “Friends of WebFWD” program.

Fellows:

# OpenPhoto

The Idea: OpenPhoto is an Open Source photo sharing platform which gives users complete ownership and portability of their photos. Users’ photos, tags and comments are seamlessly stored into personally owned cloud services owned by themselves. Whatever they want to do or wherever they want to go their photos are free to go with them.

# CASH Music

The Idea: CASH Music is a nonprofit organization focussed on artist sustainability through education and open technology. We’ve worked directly with artists and independent labels to build a free and open platform that can be downloaded and used to promote, distribute, and sell music.

# MySchoolHelp

What’s Next?

The teams are currently getting set up in our system (we use Yammer for inter-team communication), get matched with their mentors and soon we’ll start our first workshops. And as this is the first iteration of our program, we expect to learn at least as much from our teams than they (hopefully) will learn from us.

Stay tuned for updates from the teams and our progress. This is the beginning of a very interesting journey!

P.S.: We are also continuously evaluating new projects – so, don’t be shy and apply here. And join our forum if you have questions or would like to discuss the program, enterpreneurship in the vein of Open Source and Open Innovation.

Pascal is the Director of Mozilla Labs, where he works with an incredibly talented team of engineers on inventing the future of the Web. He loves technology and believes that the Internet is deeply impacting mankind. He got started on the Net before there was a web browser, founded a couple of companies on the Internet, led eBay’s Platform Solutions Group, consulted a bunch of entrepreneurs on their strategy, operations and invested into startups. But most of all – he simply loves to do cool stuff on the Web and work with great people.